Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum (RCA)

I am not sure who gets the credit for this, but I am loving the influence late-60s cinema rock is having on the modern musical palette. I am talking about the big beat, organ heavy pop that provided the rock and roll backdrop to many-a-teen movie in the 60s. It was supposed to sound like the bands that made up the era’s Hit Parade, but because it was generally written, produced and recorded by session players looking for a few more bucks, it took on a particularly polished personality. All the fuzzy guitars and back beats were there, but this wasn’t music made by scruffy twenty-somethings living the high life in the English country, it was American musical day laborers who had their own particular understanding of youth culture and the music business. THAT music has been creeping into recent releases (most often produced by or somehow associated with Danger Mouse) and I love it.

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